Since I completed my dissertation on mentoring orphans, I had promised myself to read (and understand) a book I bought in Russia on Russian history. This version would be post-Soviet. The text is in Russian and has 350 pages with text and graphics/pictures. In today's reading we go back to 1619. Russia had about 20 years of war with various lands and concluded a peace treaty with Poland-Lithuania. Part of the agreement included the Orthodox Priest Filaret. The Russian chronicles described quite a character and I translate: "he became the tsar's extortioner and builder, defender of orphans, and an annoying/insulting representative." One of his legacies was the defense of orphans which he had to draw from the Old Testament and James 1:27- looking after orphans in their distress.
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